Standard Triumph Works Directory

Did you work at the Standard or Triumph – at Canley, Radford, Banner Lane, Northey Road, Allesley, Tile Hill, Western Avenue (London), Bordesley Green (Birmingham), Speke (Liverpool), Berkeley Square (London) or any of the associated sites/companies associated with Standard Triumph? If so, we’d love to hear from you to build a database of names associated with the Standard and Triumph company. Read More HERE.

To add a name, click on the ‘Submit a Name’ link below.
Please add the surname first. Use the format: Smith, John in the name field, then add a description; here you can include a role, location, service dates etc plus any other information you think may be of interest, finishing with your name (you may be submitting on behalf of a family member). Don’t worry how much – or little – you write in the description box – everything helps!
PLEASE NOTE: By using the ‘submit name’ element on the site we DO NOT get any record of you or your email and sometimes we’d love to get in touch with you, but we can’t! Please either drop your email details on the entry (don’t worry we won’t publish that) or a separate email to say ‘hello’.
Thank you.

List of Names (Surnames First)

We’d love you to get involved with this project. You can email us your info to iwas@standardtriumphworks.co.uk or post a name directly on the ‘submit name’ link.

April 2018 Update:
After a great effort in November, December and January, the archive has now over 2,000 name entries and with over 350 articles on the site. Take a look at the Latest News posts to see the articles.

Thank you for all the submissions in the database. In addition some people have articles, info, memories and photos. We’ll show everything, that comes in, at some point soon, please bear with us. We still need more… Email your stories today!

Would you like to contribute regularly to the site? Let us know.

NB. Due to SPAM attacks registration to the site is currently suspended. Genuine people please get in touch via email. Thank you.
This website was launched February 1, 2017.

NEW: Recognise Anyone? A selection of people we need your help identifying. CLICK HERE

LATEST POSTS

• Triumph Apprentice School - The Apprentice Training School was situated at Banner Lane. After Massey Ferguson acquired the factory in 1959 it was moved to Radford. Subsequently it moved to Tile Hill.
• Martin Burke – Maintenance - Martin Burke, (70), a fitter’s mate in Maintenance Department, Canley, retired (in 1972) after 29 years of valuable service.
• Weddings – Part 1 – 1968 - A trio of weddings from the Standard Triumph company newspaper in December 1968. Recognise anyone?
• Final Finish Football Team - Thanks to Martin Murphy for this photograph of the Final Finish Football team.
• Hazel Gibbons – Export Sales - Miss Hazel Gibbons, an export sales clerk at Fletch. South for three years, married Graham Stuart who worked on Engine Assembly, at Coventry.
• Doris Mathias – Typist - Doris Mathias, a typist in several departments at Coventry for over 22 years, retired early to become a full-time housewife.
• Steve Young – Fireman Part 2 - I recently asked my Dad about his time at Standard Triumph and he produced an amazing scrapbook full of photos and memories including many newspaper clippings.
• First Aid Course – Can You Help? - A photograph from a First Aid Course featuring the Standard Triumph Fire Service and a number of other attendees. Can you help identify anyone?
• Gordon Wright – Tea Boy - It was back in the days when the BBC’s Home Service broadcast the popular programme Workers’ Playtime live from Britain’s factories that sailor Gordon Wright first spotted Joan Simpson in Coventry.
• David Mileham – Planning Engineer - Presentation to David Mileham, planning engineer, on the occasion of his marriage, March 1967.

If you feel inspired by this website, you can donate to it.
By donating to the site you will help with the maintenance, hosting and the upkeep. Thank you
Alternatively, take a look at our Triumph Herald Book, documenting the launch of one of Triumph’s most popular cars. Sales from this book are supporting this site.

We’d love you to help with the archive. Send any details in, or contribute to the site regularly. We love to hear the everyday stories that, without you, will be lost. Email us today.

We are currently looking for sponsorship for this website, to enable further development of the archive, to cover costs and future initiatives. If you would like to get involved, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you – please email: iwas@standardtriumphworks.co.uk